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Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England
Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England
Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Description
In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the literary sources of documentary, autobiography and fiction, as well as by the particular pattern of survival and collection by museums of garments of rural provenance. Rachel Worth explores ways in which clothing and how it is represented throws light on wider social and cultural aspects of society, as well as how 'traditional' styles of dress, like men's smock-frocks or women's sun-bonnets, came to be replaced by 'fashion'. Her compelling study, with black & white and colour illustrations, both adds a broader dimension to the history of dress by considering it within the social and cultural context of its time and discusses how clothing enriches our understanding of the social history of the Victorian period.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Change and Transition in Victorian England: The Rural Context
Chapter 2: Surveying and Documenting the Rural: Work, Education and the Domesticity of Dress
Chapter 3: Clothing and its Acquisition in a Changing Society
Chapter 4: 'Painting' Nostalgia: Dress and Visions of a Vanishing Rural World
Chapter 5: Dress and the 'Counter-Myth' in Images of Rural England
Chapter 6: The Dialectics of Fashion and Tradition: Approaching Modernity
Chapter 7: Rural Working-Class Dress: Survival and Representation
Conclusion: Clothing and Landscape
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Jan 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781786723451 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 29 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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